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I am a 26 year old man, if that makes any difference. What are the health benefits of eating bananas?

Bet you didn’t know all these health benefits of the banana! P.S. Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! Yum

Banana Health Facts

Bananas: Containing three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fibre, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes.

Anaemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of haemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anaemia.

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation: High in fibre, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body; so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

More Health Advantages of Banana

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.

PMS: Forget the pills – eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body’s water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in “The New England Journal of Medicine,” eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Temperature Control: Many other cultures see bananas as a “cooling” fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

A banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare bananas to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. Maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, “A banana a day keeps the doctor away!”

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US Healthcare Reform Review

The ongoing and increasingly rancorous debate over healthcare reform in the US is clearly set to define at least the first part of President Obama’s time in office. While as yet the precise terms of the proposed reforms – let alone their success – have yet to be determined, it is obvious that their intentions are historically significant and that, if adopted, they would have a radical impact throughout the healthcare sector and far beyond. This potential impact has substantial implications for the shared services and outsourcing space both within healthcare and, longer-term, across every other sector, by virtue of the changes reform would precipitate in a range of areas including insurance provision and the nature of employee contributions and benefits.

It’s simply premature to give a full assessment of the specific ramifications of reform – or the failure to achieve it – but even at this comparatively early stage some of the potential consequences for shared services and outsourcing are beginning to coalesce. It’s hard to envisage, for example, any substantial increase in state spending on healthcare and the growth in related infrastructure which would follow, without assuming that shared services would form at least part of the solution: even without healthcare reform, of course, the move to a more streamlined and efficient government touted by President Obama both before and since his election will rely in no small part on an adoption of many of the principles which have seen shared services become such a pillar of both private- and public-sector service provision, and it would be near-incomprehensible were any new healthcare structure to be erected without recourse to similar means.

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“In line with the Presidential mandate for a more efficient government, many believe that the opportunity for shared services within the Federal Government is promising,” says Dave Adams of management consultants ScottMadden. “Given the value that shared services can deliver and solid examples of successful federal shared services organizations already in operation, the timing is right to pursue shared services as the government-wide model for delivery of mission support services.”

Indeed, the expertise developed within shared services – both public and private – over the last two decades may well prove invaluable when applied to some of the more vexing organizational and process-related issues thrown up by healthcare reform on any significant scale. While reform presumably could be enacted without involving the shared services community, the question would inevitably arise: why? If the idea remains to “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”, it seems almost self-evident that the US stands to benefit hugely from the invaluable experience of shared services leaders who have for years faced many of the same challenges – albeit on a smaller scale – that would stand in the way of imposing true reform onto a system which already sucks in such a vast portion of federal spending.

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Linda Merritt, research director at NelsonHall, believes that the time has come for shared services heavy hitters to step up to the plate. “Major SS&O players have the opportunity to be seen as thought leaders and join the national debate. For example, the design of the new health records system should take into consideration all of the end-to-end processes and interfaces [that] will connect to it, including employer benefits administration, claims and billings, and compliance with regulation and legislation requirements and reporting. Healthcare providers’ cost of completing claims and payment processes requirements for every insurance carrier adds directly and significantly to the cost of healthcare through complexity and confusion.

“While other parts of the health care debate are higher profile,” she adds, “the cost of excessive administrative complexity consumes billions of dollars that could be used to provide and expand health care. And who knows more about streamlining administrative processes to increase quality, functionality at a lower cost than leading SS&O providers?”

Such streamlining isn’t a mere “nice-to-have”, but an absolutely essential part of any potential reform process. The violently polarizing nature of the debate thus far has demonstrated that this is a matter of the greatest significance both socially and politically: in Washington, President Obama has come down to earth with a bump and knows that pushing reform through Congress is going to be a task requiring every ounce of his political clout, and if he is to win this battle a major aspect of his strategy must be to demonstrate that state intervention into healthcare will be carried out as efficiently – as cost-efficiently – as possible. Every last penny will be protested by the more reactionary elements within Congress: the ability to prove that new state infrastructure will be developed along best-practice lines, and with excess fat trimmed to a microscopic level, could literally mean the difference between success and failure.

But of course it’s not just the government which could turn to shared services as part of any reform process: the private-sector organizations making up such a significant part of both current and future healthcare systems will also be affected to an extent that has yet to be clarified. While many such companies have already adopted shared services to some degree, the advantages of the shared services model when it comes to increasing flexibility and scalability will be hard to ignore for those that haven’t – and even early adopters might look to diversify the services provided by their existing SSOs as new challenges demand new solutions across organizations. This will, of course, create added costs in the short term.

“One significant impact to consider is the need to evaluate how changes in legislation, policies, and/or procedures will impact existing processes, systems and re-tooling of workforce knowledge/skills. If the rules of the game change (and assuming that insurance providers will continue to play a critical role in healthcare) then providers must stand ready to quickly adapt their operations to meet these challenges,” explains Adams.

He continues: “Changes in the scope of work that shared services and/or outsource service providers have committed to providing to their customers will require investment in people, process and technology . Whether or not the cost of modifying operations to meet the new rules can be recovered through existing pricing mechanisms or service agreements is yet to be determined. The question of who pays will likely lead to interesting and challenging discussions between service providers and customers.”

“Interesting and challenging”, indeed, could be taken as a somewhat understated judgment on the entire reform environment. There are of course at least three groups for whom a third adjective pops up: “exciting”, perhaps, or even “appetizing”. Those three bodies are the consultants – who’ll undoubtedly be aiming for a tasty slice of the pie should any significant transformation to government architecture be called for; outsource providers, for similar reasons (although the landscape here is more complex); and shared services professionals.

The last group in particular stand to gain a great deal from any significant expansion of healthcare-related shared services, of course, for the simple reason that it would open up new employment possibilities at a time when the general trend has been towards job-cutting and rationalization even at quite senior levels. If it is indeed time as Linda Merritt suggests for shared services leaders to “join the national debate”, the reward may well be measurable in terms of many new roles within new or expanded shared services organizations or within ancillary sectors such as training or advisory services.

Furthermore, if the more radical elements of the proposed reforms manage to make it into law, existing SSOs within every American organization will have to accommodate and react to new legislative requirements affecting areas like general HR, payroll and compliance. This would presumably open up new opportunities for employment and/or advancement as firms look to recruit experienced talent to help them through the transition. All told, the potential number of new shared services jobs from any reform of healthcare that goes beyond the merely cosmetic could run into the thousands at least (although many of these would of course be entry-level positions). As such the prospect of healthcare reform on any significant scale should be a mouth-watering one for the shared services community which – lest we forget – has taken a bit of a battering since the onset of the financial crisis.

For the service-provider community the potential advantages are less clear-cut in that the government’s position on outsourcing (especially offshore outsourcing) has yet to crystallize despite the increasingly anti-outsourcing rhetoric which occasionally crept into Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric.

As Adams explains, “the Administration has recently sent some strong messages regarding the effectiveness of outsourcing and there is a movement in place within the Federal Government to bring existing outsourced work back in-house… although [it is] not completely off the table given that outsourcing remains a viable solution for driving much needed efficiencies and cost savings.”

It’s unlikely that President Obama and his team would want to stir an already bubbling pot by trumpeting incessantly on about the potential benefits of outsourcing given the term’s negative connotations in the eyes of many in the electorate. However, outsourcing itself could be a handy weapon in the president’s armory against the more rabid opponents of reform in that it provides an opportunity to demonstrate that reform is not all about “big government” and taking control away from the private sector. It’s clearly too early to go too far down the line of such an argument; however it’s almost certain that despite his apparently anti-outsourcing stance on the campaign trail, President Obama will have to incorporate at least some outsourcing of services into his reform proposals (in many ways, indeed, outsourcing lies at the very heart of the planned reforms in the sense that the government will continue to outsource much of both delivery and insurance of healthcare to the private sector).

As a result, the major outsourcing providers are monitoring the situation in Washington extremely closely; whether or not US-based firms operating US-based delivery centers will have an advantage over their foreign-based competitors due to the political danger inherent in offshoring elements of such an already controversial policy remains to be seen, although some skeptics may believe that this should be taken as a given considering how important every congressional vote is to the overall success or failure of the mooted reforms.

Linda Merritt believes that allowing such political considerations to color the format and origin of service delivery within a reform package could prove counter-productive. “Well-meaning but misplaced restrictions could add in cost, just when the goal is to find ways to increase healthcare coverage at the lowest total cost to our economy. For example, tying government funding to restrictions on where work can be shored would impact the cost to design, develop and build the new technologies. The top candidates for design and development of such systems already use intelligent shoring to segment workflow by capability, capacity and cost globally,” she says.

You might say – and you’d be perfectly correct – that all this is supposition, and that the real substance of healthcare reform has yet to reveal itself. That is indeed the case; however, it doesn’t take a great mind to see that efficiency and cost-savings lie at the very heart of the solution to the great American healthcare system, and that shared services (and outsourcing) are now a mainstream method of achieving exactly those two aims. As such it’s hard to imagine a future incarnation of healthcare that doesn’t utilize shared services at least in part – and of course the greater the scale of government involvement in healthcare and the more radical the transformation, the more likely it is that some of the potential consequences considered here will indeed play out. As President Obama said in his address to Congress earlier this month, he has come “not to fear the future, but to shape it”: the shape of that future may yet be undecided, but it’s all but certain that shared services will play a significant role in shaping it.

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A majority of Long Term Care Insurance policies are sold as comprehensive and stand alone health plans. These plans have options of annual, semi-annual, quarterly or even monthly premiums. There are also other types of payments like an abbreviated payment plan. The comprehensive Long Term Care Insurance plan is similar to the group health plan or individual health plan. This type of plan covers most of the health care alternatives. There are four primary methods to package Long Term Care Insurance.

1. The Long Term Care Insurance may be packaged with life insurance with either or feature which is very beneficial and flexible. In case of policy holder dies, their beneficiary will get the death benefit. While in case of policy holder wants Long term care, prior to his/her death than instead of life insurance predetermined benefits are paid. You can buy this type of policy by either paying the one time premium of $ 50,000 or more or with quarterly, yearly premiums.

2. The Long Term Care Insurance is packaged as rider to life insurance policy’s cash value. This type of policy covers two different types and the premiums are also divided to pay for both.

3. The Long Term Care Insurance may be packaged with disability income policy. It can be used before the age of 65years. This type of packaged policy is mainly for disability income but there are possibilities of long term coverage if premiums are paid after the age of 65.

4. The Long Term Care Insurance may be packaged with deferred annuity that has single premium option. This type of packaged policy is for those people who has around $ 50.000 or more money that is free and don’t mind if it is tied up. There is pending legislation which if passed will make Long Term Care Insurance premiums exempted form tax.

What is Long term Health Insurance?

The Long term care may be defined as when some one can not perform their emotional or physical needs without the help of other for extended time period than it is termed as Long term care. The external help required for activities like pain management, bathing, comfort and assurance, walking, toilet usage, meals providing, feeding, money management, phone answering, visiting doctor, shopping, taking medication, transport providing, laundry, grooming, paying bill, letter writings, small home repairs, yard maintaining, snow removing etc. are covered under Long term care. Able people take this type of activities for granted.

There are many reasons that are responsible for Long term care like disability, terminal condition, injury, illness, old age etc. It is found out that around 60 percentage of population require extended help during their life span. For some, the Long term care lasts for few days or weeks or months. But there are some persons for whom the Long term care goes for years. Depending upon the person’s condition they require different periods of care. The care may be divided in to two broad categories.

Ongoing Long term care: This type of care requirement is for extended period, may be for months or years. Ongoing Long term care is required when

1. Disabilities of permanent nature

2. Medical conditions which are chronic

3. Daily routine require help

4. Chronic pain

Temporary Long term care: This type of care requirement is for short period, may be only weeks or months. Temporary Long term care is required when

1. Recovering from illness

2. Recovering from surgery

3. Recovering from injury

4. Terminal medical condition

5. Hospital stay for rehabilitation

The Long term care services may be given in an adult day servicing home, in the house of the patient, even in the house of patient’s friends or any of the family member’s house, in a board and care house or in a nursing home or many other such places.

Understanding Long Term Health Insurance benefits

Out of all insurance products the Long term care insurance is the most complicated health benefit product. The Long term care insurance provides around 16 options of different benefits. Out of this 16 options each option also offer 2 to 5 selections. The story does not end here, daily benefits gives other selections which may be rounded up to 30 in number. So theoretically there are hundreds or thousands of different policies possible in the same plan. With the results there is thousands of premiums combination. For lay man to grasp all this different combination of policy is very difficult.

So to make this thing simple, best way is to limit the choices. For example many employer will pre select only 2 to 4 different combination of benefit, and offer their employees only this with extra riders like inflation protection, shortened pay or non forfeiture. This procedure will leave thousands of options in to only 10 to 20. Many see advantages of this procedure but there are also some disadvantages.

Selecting from very limited options prevents many employees from selecting other batter and richer benefit plans. Some time it is also observed that limited number of benefits which is often proved to be inadequate. The obvious danger of offering limited benefit policy is employees may be under the false impression that they are covered for particular thing when actually they are not covered. For example to increase the employees’ participation rate they are offered incomplete protections which reduce the rate of premiums and superficially look very attractive. Some time initial payment may be lower but it increases as time passes.

It is always better to select a Long term care insurance plan that offers the option of additional benefits. These additional options are mostly medically under written, but the coverage is very broad. Contrary to belief that underwriting has very strict rules and it is very difficult to be eligible, around 95 % of employees are qualifies for medically underwritten Long term care insurance plan.

Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

The Health Savings Accounts (HSA) is some what new in to the market of health insurance. Health Savings Accounts is based on entirely new concept and provide people with great option for health care insurance.

You should consider buying Health Savings Accounts insurance when you are seriously thinking health insurance as a form of investment. There are some restriction and regulations regarding Health Savings Accounts insurance plan. Different person find different benefits that is useful for them, for example if you are self employed than Health Savings Accounts insurance plan offer you the benefit like exemption from tax, up to the limit of $ 2,700 for individual plan and up to $ 5,450 for family plan.

For childless couple who does not own any health insurance, Health Savings Accounts insurance is good health plan, since purchasing Health Savings Accounts insurance and paying premiums regularly the amount of premiums will be accumulated in to tax free money. This money will be like lottery when after substantial time policy holder becomes old and their children becomes young. Large sum of money they will receive when they are old is really blessings.

Apart from many benefits, Health Savings Accounts insurance is not as famous as required. There are certain disadvantages which make Health Savings Accounts insurance good for certain types of people. Many people will benefit from Health Savings Accounts insurance but they don’t know about it. Slowly the situation is improving and people stated inquiring about Health Savings Accounts insurance. People become more aware about the savings on their expanses which is medical related. There are many people who opt for high deductible health plan combine with Health Savings Accounts. Now it is generally known that Health Savings Accounts insurance allow people to keep aside before-tax money, which can be utilize for future medical expenditure. This means that if people has Health Savings Accounts insurance and remains healthy than they may accumulate hundreds or thousands of dollar in their Health Savings Accounts at the time of retirement.

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In order to protect yourself at retirement, make sure you under stand Medicare Supplement plans which cover medical expenses that are not covered by standard Medicare part A or B plans. Medigap insurance, as it is commonly referred to provides protection against the many medical cost that are not part of basic Medicare part A or B coverage .

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So, how do you evaluate Medicare supplement plans and find the one that is right for you ? Different Medicare Supplement plans are going to offer a variety of benefits , and can have significantly different monthly premiums . In order to get the best Medigap insurance policy, you need to evaluate exactly what you need, and make sure that you are not paying for anything that you don’t need . For instance, Medicare Supplement plans D and F provide more benefits, but this also comes with an increased cost .

However, if you are looking for more basic coverage and a lower premium, you may want to go with a new Medicare Supplement Plan N which just hit the market in 2010 . A big advantage to Medicare Supplements over “Advantage” plans is that there are no network restrictions with supplement policies.  You choose any doctor that accepts basic medicare . These other Medicare Advantage plans, may be slightly more affordable than traditional Medicare supplement plans when comparing just the monthly premium but you must consider the more limited coverage and lower flexibility compared to a quality Medigap Plan .

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You need to be aware that every company sets medicare supplement rates individually, but the plans of the same letter must have the same benefits . You need to do thorough research, and find a private insurance provider that can give you a quality plan at the best rate because paying more does not get you any more protection. Because age is the main factor in determing your medicare supplement rate, make sure and shop before your next birthday since your rate will be locked in for the next 12 months .

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There are different types available at varying prices. I assume you are fairly young, so that works in your favor. You may also wish to ask about "catastrophic" coverage which is less expensive, but only starts paying off after the accrued bills reach a certain (high) amount.